"More than two hours." Mingzhang took them a short distance to the left and stopped beside the steep slope leading down the mountain. The light of the flashlight illuminated circles of U-shaped iron rings embedded in the stone wall.
He knelt down and held the rope tied to the U-shaped iron ring: "If you want to take a detour, you can only go down here."
"It's so steep." Chi Yunyan pulled back hard on the rope in his hand to test its strength: "If you miss the step and don't hold on to the rope firmly, wouldn't it be like falling to pieces?"
"The distance between each hoop is very close. As long as your feet don't shake, you won't miss it." He retracted his hand and looked at Chi Yue and others: "It will definitely be okay for you to leave."
"Forget it, I don't want to take a detour."
Chi Yue didn't want to waste too much time.
She and Wen Qizhou unanimously decided to walk on the rope bridge. The others had no objection and followed them back to the bridge.
Just as they were about to step onto the bridge, an aunt standing behind the soldiers ran over and ordered them: "If you find any problem with any board, wrap a rope around the iron chain and make a net to prevent us from accidentally stepping on it. "
She takes it for granted.
"How to make it up?" Chi Yue took half a step back and looked at the aunt who asked them to try and make mistakes indifferently: "How about you demonstrate?"
"……I won't."
The aunt's eyes dodge.
The middle-aged man next to her rolled his eyes and said, "You can pick up some branches and put them on top."
"Then you come?"
"I have night blindness and can't see clearly."
Chi Yue smiled.
She pulled Wen Qizhou to sit on a boulder and leaned lazily on his shoulder: "My legs hurt and I can't walk for the time being."
Middle-aged man: "..."
He watched Wen Yaxian and others retreat from the bridge and find places to sit down one after another, which was inevitable.
"There are some people." Xie Changxiao glanced at him and the silent aunt, and said yin-yang: "The skin is thicker than the city wall."
The aunt was so embarrassed.
She secretly poked the middle-aged man's arm, gesturing for him to speak, but the middle-aged man didn't want to confront them, and since Xie Changxiao didn't mention her name, he was stupid enough to answer the question.
They were in a stalemate, and the people in the team were worried that the fire would spread, so they had to beg two soldiers to take the lead.
"Young man, we can't delay any longer." When the injured residents thought of the feeling of being burned by the fire, they wished they could grow a pair of wings and fly away from the mountain.
The soldier said a dull "hmm".
They hung their guns sideways on their chests, went to pick up a bundle of branches nearby and carried them behind their backs. They stepped onto the rope bridge with a flashlight, preparing to walk around the bridge and come back to pick up the others.
Two figures without hesitation burst into Chi Yue's eyes. She was worried that they were in danger, so she and Wen Qizhou got up to follow them, so that they could help if there was an emergency.
She grabbed the chain by the bridge and walked forward cautiously. Xie Changxiao, who was lagging behind, picked up Xunsong and tied him in front of her first, and then stepped onto the wooden plank with Mingzhang and the others.
There was a "creak" sound.
The rope bridge carrying thirteen people swayed slightly.
Seeing them walking ten meters away without incident, Chi Anying and Liang Fan supported Liang's mother and stepped onto the bridge slowly.
Some people who stayed at the bridge couldn't wait to pick up their luggage and walked forward holding on to the chains like them.
"Click──"
Two wooden boards that had been stepped on by many people broke in an instant, and the young man who happened to be standing on them fell uncontrollably.
The hand holding the iron chain shook. Before he could call for help, he fell to the bottom of the bridge and was swallowed by the darkness.
A scream echoed in everyone's ears.
Chi Yue, who was about to turn back, suddenly heard a cracking sound from the wooden board where she and the soldiers in front were standing.
They stepped forward and backward.
The soldier stabilized his body in time, but the moment she stepped back, she unfortunately stepped on an equally unstable wooden board.
She fell in the blink of an eye, one of her legs passing through the broken wooden planks and hanging below the rope bridge.
"Yueyue!" Wen Qizhou dropped the flashlight and rushed forward, grabbing her hands that were holding an iron chain tightly.
While he was pulling Chi Yue, those who witnessed the young man falling from the bottom of the bridge were frightened and ran madly towards the bridge, causing the entire rope bridge to shake even more.
"Don't let him move!" Chi Yunyan saw Chi Yue's legs falling to the bottom of the bridge. He wanted to step forward but was afraid that the board wouldn't be able to bear it. He was so anxious that he broke out in cold sweat and wanted to kill those people.
Wen Qizhou was more anxious than him.
He stabilized his body under the violent shaking. In order to avoid dragging Chi Yue up so hard that the board under his feet would be affected, he had to slow down his movements and pull her back at the same time.
"Don't be afraid... Yueyue, don't be afraid." His eyes were locked on Chi Yue's face, and his voice was trembling faintly.
Chi Yue was calm from beginning to end.
He was actually the one who was afraid.
She used her strength to lift her left foot away from the broken board. The moment she stood up, Wen Qizhou held her in his arms.
His chin rested on the top of her hair, and his hold on her shoulders tightened, as if he was melting her into his bones.
Sensing his panic and uneasiness, Chi Yue stood up on her toes and kissed his cool lips while others were not paying attention.
With the help of a ray of flashlight, she looked into the suspicious eyes of Ruifeng: "It's okay, let's move forward."
"Yeah." Wen Qizhou took a deep breath.
He picked up the flashlight and stepped over the two cracked boards without stopping. He remained vigilant and protected her as she moved forward.
As soon as he encountered a board that was about to break, he immediately grabbed her hand and strode across it, trying his best to avoid falling.
The remaining dozens of meters were fairly smooth. Among the group of people, only Ge Qinyao and Yan Shuo accidentally stepped on the split board, but in the end they were pulled back in time.
However, four people behind him fell into the bottom of the bridge.
Chi Yue did not turn around to pay attention.
She listened silently to the screams that sometimes echoed in the mountains. Just as she was about to step onto the mud at the end of the bridge, she suddenly heard someone from behind shouting: "Quickly! The chain is about to break!"
There is a chain on the left and right sides of the bridge.
The chain on the left side suddenly broke, and the entire bridge became shaky, and the people still on the bridge ran forward.
Chi Yue and his party were very close to the end of the bridge and were not affected. Behind them, Chi Anying, three people and a couple ran all the way, rushing towards the bridge just a second before the bridge tilted. They were sweating profusely and threw themselves on the ground. Go up to the muddy area at the end of the bridge.
The residents who were left behind all rushed to the right side of the bridge and grabbed another chain connecting the head and end of the bridge.
The soldier said: "Move forward quickly!"
The dozen or so people hanging on the chains dropped their luggage and stepped on the upright wooden boards, struggling to move forward.
They shook their legs and moved step by step towards the end of the bridge with their arms wrapped around the chains. But not far away, the fifth person suddenly stopped moving: "No, it's too high. I don't dare to walk."
"Don't look down!"
"I didn't look..." He shook his head and refused to move even a step no matter what, making it impossible for those behind him to move forward.
"You are looking for death, don't hurt us!" The feeling of being hung on the bridge was so uncomfortable that some people couldn't help but curse.
The boy was scolded and lost control of his emotions.
He shook the chain suddenly and told them to shut up in a hoarse voice: "Shut up! If you curse me again, you won't even think about living!"
"Fuck!"
"If I don't scold you, just leave."
"I told you I'm afraid of heights!" He turned his head and stared at the group of people with splitting eyes: "Are you deaf and can't you hear?"
"..."
The strong man behind him didn't want to waste any more time, so he suppressed the thought of punching him and moved to close the distance with him.
"Don't move, okay?" The strong man pressed against his back and reached out to grab the chain in front of him, trying to get around him.
"I didn't plan to move at all."
"Okay." He leaned sideways, hung on the chain with his strong arm strength, raised his right foot and stepped on the wooden board in front of him.
The people behind me followed suit.
But not everyone is like a strong man who can stabilize his mentality and ensure that his arms can bear his own weight.
The third person who passed by him fell to the bottom of the mountain because he failed to grasp the chain during the moment of hanging in the air.
A scream irritated their eardrums.
The young man and the brown-haired woman behind him turned pale with fear, and their legs on the edge of the board became weak.
The brown-haired woman did not dare to imitate the strong man and walked around him. She trembled and begged: "I beg you, please go forward?"
"I can not……"
He hugged the chain tightly, his forehead was covered with sweat.
The brown-haired woman reluctantly pressed close to his back, giving him a sense of security while encouraging him to move his feet while looking at the end of the bridge.
The boy swallowed and moved forward.
After moving two or three meters away, I didn't dare to move again.
"It's too slow!" The strong man glanced at the woman who repeatedly stepped on the empty board: "The people behind can hardly hold on."
"There is no way." The person who walked around the boy to the end of the bridge like him sighed: "I urge him but I can't. If I urge him, he will still shake the chain and make trouble to die together. Who can afford to offend him?"
"Oh, no way..."
